---
_id: '63224'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: <jats:p>By monitoring the solidification of droplets of plant latices with
    a fast quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring (QCM-D), droplets
    from Campanula glomerata were found to solidify much faster than droplets from
    Euphorbia characias and also faster than droplets from all technical latices tested.
    A similar conclusion was drawn from optical videos, where the plants were injured
    and the milky fluid was stretched (sometimes forming fibers) after the cut. Rapid
    solidification cannot be explained with physical drying because physical drying
    is transport-limited and therefore is inherently slow. It can, however, be explained
    with coagulation being triggered by a sudden decrease in hydrostatic pressure.
    A mechanism based on a pressure drop is corroborated by optical videos of both
    plants being injured under water. While the liquid exuded by E. characias keeps
    streaming away, the liquid exuded by C. glomerata quickly forms a plug even under
    water. Presumably, the pressure drop causes an influx of serum into the laticifers.
    The serum, in turn, triggers a transition from a liquid–liquid phase separated
    state (an LLPS state) of a resin and hardener to a single-phase state. QCM measurements,
    optical videos, and cryo-SEM images suggest that LLPS plays a role in the solidification
    of C. glomerata.</jats:p>
article_number: '798'
article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Arne
  full_name: Langhoff, Arne
  last_name: Langhoff
- first_name: Astrid
  full_name: Peschel, Astrid
  last_name: Peschel
- first_name: Christian
  full_name: Leppin, Christian
  id: '117722'
  last_name: Leppin
- first_name: Sebastian
  full_name: Kruppert, Sebastian
  last_name: Kruppert
- first_name: Thomas
  full_name: Speck, Thomas
  last_name: Speck
- first_name: Diethelm
  full_name: Johannsmann, Diethelm
  last_name: Johannsmann
citation:
  ama: Langhoff A, Peschel A, Leppin C, Kruppert S, Speck T, Johannsmann D. Rapid
    Solidification of Plant Latices from Campanula glomerata Driven by a Sudden Decrease
    in Hydrostatic Pressure. <i>Plants</i>. 2025;14(5). doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14050798">10.3390/plants14050798</a>
  apa: Langhoff, A., Peschel, A., Leppin, C., Kruppert, S., Speck, T., &#38; Johannsmann,
    D. (2025). Rapid Solidification of Plant Latices from Campanula glomerata Driven
    by a Sudden Decrease in Hydrostatic Pressure. <i>Plants</i>, <i>14</i>(5), Article
    798. <a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14050798">https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14050798</a>
  bibtex: '@article{Langhoff_Peschel_Leppin_Kruppert_Speck_Johannsmann_2025, title={Rapid
    Solidification of Plant Latices from Campanula glomerata Driven by a Sudden Decrease
    in Hydrostatic Pressure}, volume={14}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14050798">10.3390/plants14050798</a>},
    number={5798}, journal={Plants}, publisher={MDPI AG}, author={Langhoff, Arne and
    Peschel, Astrid and Leppin, Christian and Kruppert, Sebastian and Speck, Thomas
    and Johannsmann, Diethelm}, year={2025} }'
  chicago: Langhoff, Arne, Astrid Peschel, Christian Leppin, Sebastian Kruppert, Thomas
    Speck, and Diethelm Johannsmann. “Rapid Solidification of Plant Latices from Campanula
    Glomerata Driven by a Sudden Decrease in Hydrostatic Pressure.” <i>Plants</i>
    14, no. 5 (2025). <a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14050798">https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14050798</a>.
  ieee: 'A. Langhoff, A. Peschel, C. Leppin, S. Kruppert, T. Speck, and D. Johannsmann,
    “Rapid Solidification of Plant Latices from Campanula glomerata Driven by a Sudden
    Decrease in Hydrostatic Pressure,” <i>Plants</i>, vol. 14, no. 5, Art. no. 798,
    2025, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14050798">10.3390/plants14050798</a>.'
  mla: Langhoff, Arne, et al. “Rapid Solidification of Plant Latices from Campanula
    Glomerata Driven by a Sudden Decrease in Hydrostatic Pressure.” <i>Plants</i>,
    vol. 14, no. 5, 798, MDPI AG, 2025, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14050798">10.3390/plants14050798</a>.
  short: A. Langhoff, A. Peschel, C. Leppin, S. Kruppert, T. Speck, D. Johannsmann,
    Plants 14 (2025).
date_created: 2025-12-18T16:58:15Z
date_updated: 2025-12-18T17:41:57Z
doi: 10.3390/plants14050798
extern: '1'
intvolume: '        14'
issue: '5'
language:
- iso: eng
publication: Plants
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 2223-7747
publication_status: published
publisher: MDPI AG
status: public
title: Rapid Solidification of Plant Latices from Campanula glomerata Driven by a
  Sudden Decrease in Hydrostatic Pressure
type: journal_article
user_id: '117722'
volume: 14
year: '2025'
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